Teachers are so creative! Each year, we invite teachers to submit new ideas for activities to help break the ice during the first days of school. Our current archive contains more than 100 activities, yet each year, we still manage to publish another icebreaker article or two! This year’s articles offer more than two dozen new icebreakers.
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Have you ever thought of keeping a class scrapbook? Whether students create individual scrapbooks or a single scrapbook that’s saved to individual CDs, a class “Memory Book” is a great way for students to create a keepsake of the events of the school year — one they can look back on and share with others for years to come! Each year, we fear we may not be able to come up with a dozen new icebreaker activities to help teachers get to know their students — and to help students get to know one another — and each year the e-mails keep coming in. This year, we introduce more than 25 new teacher-tested getting-to-know-you activities in two new volumes. Some teachers prefer to jump right into classroom rules and instruction. Icebreakers, they say, are a waste of good instructional time. Most teachers recognize the potential of icebreakers, though. Icebreakers can help teachers get to know their students. They can reveal who the class leaders might be, what skills and special abilities students possess, and how well students might work together. On the first day of school (unlike the remaining days of the school year), the children are usually reluctant to talk about themselves. We make “me” puppets using paper plates for the head, yarn for the hair, and construction paper facial features, with a popscicle stick for a handle. Upon completion, we stage a puppet show. The children hide their faces with the puppets and tell their classmates all about their families, hobbies, pets, etc. |
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